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Medellín’s Metrocable – Mobility as fundamental factor of integrated and inclusive urban development

Sustainable Cities

Medellín - Antioquia, Colombia

In 2004, Medellín opened the first cable car as part of a public transport system worldwide. This gondola lift is supported by the municipality and embedded in an integrated urban development programme. It creates opportunities for the city's poor population and reduces marginalization.

Kontupiste is an information and communications technology services centre serving Kontula residents. Its mission is to provide access to cultural and technological experiences for citizens regardless of their level of education or social status; to encourage residents to engage in active citizenship; to impart the skills to understand, access and use new media and social networks; and to contribute to the attractiveness of Kontula.

Rooftop gardening, urban chickens, seed-sharing stations: we’ve seen a plethora of initiatives in which our cities serve as sites for agricultural activities.

San Francisco’s Push For Zero Waste

Sustainable Cities

San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos

Much of San Francisco’s initiative includes encouraging consumers to buy less so that they’ll produce less waste. The city has banned single-use plastic bags and encourages consumers to bring their own reusable mugs to coffee shops, dining in rather than using takeout containers, and bringing their own food storage containers to bring leftovers home.

Farmer’s Market On Wheels Delivers Veggies To Toronto’s Food Deserts

Sustainable Cities

Toronto, Ontario, Canadá

Food deserts are defined as areas without proper access to fresh, healthy and affordable food. Toronto’s recently launched Mobile Good Food Market wants to overcome this problem by selling fresh produce on the streets in areas where people have few nutritious food options.

Under a new plan, money collected from the city’s high-traffic zones would go toward bike upgrades.

Aarhus is Giving Bikers the Green Light

Aarhus, Dinamarca

If you’re a cyclist in Aarhus, Denmark, you might soon be able to pedal from home to work or school in the morning without stopping at a single red light.

Bold redesign makes Indian City a Rolemodel

Sustainable Cities

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

The redesign of Indian city Chennai wins the 2015 Sustainia Award, chaired by Arnold Schwarzenegger, for its solution to the city’s mounting air pollution and traffic casualties.

A town in Tuscany is paying people to cycle to work, Gianni Pericolo

Sustainable Cities

Massarosa, Lucca, Italia

The town of Massarosa in the province of Lucca has implemented a new bike scheme, wherein it pays citizens to bike to work rather than use their cars.

Vending Machine Dispenses Urban Farm Eggs

Sustainable Cities

Hamburgo, Alemania

Hamburg urban farm Hühnerhof der Motte has existed for almost 30 years. In an attempt to find new ways to sell their eggs to customers the farmers came up with a simple and very effective idea — a vending machine.

Knowledge of Place: Connecting Generations with Ondergronds Amsterdam

Sustainable Cities

Ámsterdam, Países Bajos

As the city fluctuates to accommodate new locals and develop new trends, certain residents and their experiences are overlooked and underappreciated. Recent waves of interest in living in the city often focusses on the younger and the more mobile urbanites, rather than their elderly counterparts, leading to a gap in knowledge and understanding between generations living in the city.

Don’t Mourn Miami Just Yet

Sustainable Cities

Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos

It’s time to mourn Miami, for as Stan and Paul Cox grimly explain in the New Republic, climate change is submerging the city we used to know. No U.S. metropolitan area is experiencing the effects of global warming more viscerally.

Indeed, the issue of environmental sustainability has often been framed as mutually exclusive from economic development, with regulation hindering market growth. Amid the current shift to seeing sustainability — especially as it relates to resilience — as a potential economic engine, Reardon and a fellow researcher decided to try to substantiate this idea and provide an example of a mechanism by which it works.

A year ago the Dutch town of Krommenie made bicycling even greener by opening a bike path composed of solar panels. This had never been done before, so it was anyone’s guess whether it would succeed as either a path or an energy source. Now the results are in, and they’re not too shabby.

The innovative delivery system transforming Gothenburg’s roads

Urban development

Gothenburg, Suecia

“I call it the rolling deckchair,” says Johan Erlandsson as his six-wheeled cargo bike, the Velove Armadillo, glides down the cobbled pedestrian streets of central Gothenburg. Stretching 14ft long but only 34 inches wide, the sleek machine is crafted from red-coated aluminium with a pedal-assisted electric drive and a trailer that is low enough for other cyclists to look over.

My Brilliant Career. Gothenburg, Sweden

Rights in the the city

Gothenburg, Suecia

Sweden leads the world in its embrace of refugees from around the world, in 2014 receiving more applicants for asylum than any other country world-wide in per capita rankings.

Get Refugees Cycling! The Bike Project

Rights in the the city,Sustainable Cities

Londres, Reino Unido

London is a city that is rich in opportunities. But getting around the city can be difficult – particularly so for refugees and asylum seekers without their own transportation and limited means. A bike can help refugees who are trying to find their feet connect with the many resources that London has to offer: food banks, lawyers to help their application process, home office appointments, healthcare, education and much more. And, if they are lucky enough to receive status, it can help them get to work.

As part of the project, The Public Collection, local artists constructed elaborate shelves for books donated by the Indianapolis Public Library.

S.F. Street Readies for Carless Pilot Project

Planning,Urban development

San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos

A portion of San Francisco’s Powell Street, long known as a hectic assemblage of hazards for pedestrians and drivers alike, will undergo an 18-month pilot program aimed at improving pedestrian safety, starting next month.

Mapping Safer Streets for Bicyclists, Pedestrians in Portland

Planning,Sustainable Cities

Portland, Oregón, Estados Unidos

The Portland native attended high school at 26th Avenue and Powell Boulevard, where Alistair Corkett lost his leg on May 10, 2015, and Peter Anderson was hit on May 29th. Both were on bicycles; both were struck by motor vehicles in the intersection.

How Buenos Aires uses crowdsourcing to drive innovation

Innovation,Sustainable Cities

Buenos Aires, Argentina

In 2013, the Government of the City of Buenos Aires led by Mayor Mauricio Macri launched a new initiative aimed at creating a city that its 3.5 million people could be proud of–a modern, innovative metropolitan district characterised by inclusive public services and a common purpose.

In Italy, a Struggling Town Looks to Refugees for Revival

Rights in the the city

Satriano, Catanzaro, Italia

The narrow streets climbing the hills of the old town are lined with empty houses marked vendesi —for sale. The central square is nearly empty at midday—just a couple of shops remain open.

DIY Nests To Encourage Bird Life In Cities

Public Space,Sustainable Cities

Londres, Reino Unido

The Nest Project wants to encourage bird life in London’s inner-city areas by enabling citizens to create their own bird nest.

Liverpool Just Opened Fast-Walking Pedestrian Lanes

Urban development

Liverpool, Reino Unido

City residents all over the world have long dreamed of a way to nudge rubbernecking tourists and other slow pokes to the side of the sidewalk. Liverpool in England has made that wish come true—at least for a short while.

Short story vending machines encourage reading

Innovation,Rights in the the city,Creativity

Grenoble, Francia

Short Edition, a French publishing company, has installed several vending machines around Grenoble stocked with short stories penned by authors from the company.

The art of the Stockholm metro

Connectivity,Urban Art

Stockholm, Suecia

From fake underground grottoes to giant bronze tulips, murals making statements on ecology to work by ‘the Swedish Banksy’, Stockholm’s metro stations are full of surprises.

San Francisco Has a New Model to Improve Public Space

Public Space

San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos

Along the southeastern portion of San Francisco, residents enjoy quaint single-family homes with multifamily developments sprinkled in, charming restaurants and old warehouses that serve as remnants of the city’s industrial past. But as new residents flood in and attract more investment, one key area still falls short: public space. A new program may solve that problem.

How Nairobi Got Its Ad-Hoc Bus System on Google Maps

Urban development,Connectivity

Nairobi, Kenia

Individual matatu buses and routes are privately owned and operated, which means schedules and ticket prices can change at the whim of whoever’s in charge.